The pearl / John Steinbeck

By:

Steinbeck, John [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1992Description: 90 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780140177374

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Summary: For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Cubao Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic St819p 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	121548d

For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence.

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